A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...

In aviation, the black box is a source of knowledge: a receptacle of crucial data that might help investigators understand catastrophe. In technology, a black box is the absence of knowledge: a ...

Who owns the patent to Google's original search algorithm? To find the answer, we used Google's search algorithm, and the answer is Stanford University. According to Quara user Tom McFarlane, "The ...

Two computer scientists found — in the unlikeliest of places — just the idea they needed to make a big leap in graph theory. This past October, as Jacob Holm and Eva Rotenberg were thumbing through a ...